{"product_id":"the-undying-pain-vulnerability-mortality-medicine-art-time-dreams-data-exhaustion-cancer-and-care-9781250757982","title":"The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.\" --Sally Rooney, author of \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Anne Boyer's radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique.\" --Ben Lerner, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Topeka School\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA twenty-first-century \u003ci\u003eIllness as Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, \u003ci\u003eThe Undying \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain \"dolorists,\" the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of \"pink ribbon culture\" while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA genre-bending memoir in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes black-and-white illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Boyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250757982","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42447024488585,"sku":"9781250757982","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-undying-pain-vulnerability-mortality-medicine-art-time-dreams-data-exhaustion-cancer-and-care-9781250757982","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}